THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
The
crowds, followed by tax collectors, followed by soldiers…all of them with the
same question: What should we do? And
John responds: share, don’t cheat, don’t extort and be satisfied.
And
to this teaching they responded with expectation. John, in prophetic style, is reminding the
people of what it means to be in covenant with God. There is nothing new in his teaching but he
must have expressed himself in such a way that fear and awe struck and metanoia
became a must.
How
do I respond to challenging teaching? Deafness? Defensiveness? Dodging?
John
is asking the hearer to change. It
reminds me of a mantra a friend of mine shared.
Whenever tempted to redirect the teaching away from oneself:
Bless
them, change me.
Bless
them, change me.
Bless
them, change me.
I
trinity of blessing and change in support of my own metanoia.
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